Pump with controlled leak: Pumping to 5” Hg, stop pumping, then gradually decreasing the vacuum with a controlled leak (valve) thereby lessening the exposure of the penis to vacuum. This approach subjects the penis to spikes in vacuum but only for a short time and is the method that the Mr. Fantastic pump system uses.
Mike, that is certainly how the Mr F pumps work. However you can prolong the max vac time by temporarily closing down the leak. However I am not sure that is a good idea as the extended time at a high vacuum may cause unacceptable stresses on your penis (blisters etc). You can also change the pump up part of the curve by slowing down the pump so the pump is expelling air just above the rate the leak it letting it in. That way you have a longer period at fairly high vacuums before the pump switches off. In the pump off part of the cycle I find the rate of vac decline seems to decline as the vac decreases so a fair proportion is in the range 5 - 4” Hg.
There is a lot to work to do here including optimising the pump cycle profile if we can call it that.
Regards
Austfred